Mrs. Trefz's classes made Thanksgiving decorations
about 9 hours ago, Nicole Trefz
Making a Thanksgiving craft
Making a Thanksgiving craft
Making a Thanksgiving craft
Making a Thanksgiving craft
Making a Thanksgiving craft
Leidholt's Homeroom enjoyed creating their own"Thankful Tree" and "Thankful Themed Door" the last few weeks. They enjoyed coming up with 67 Things They Are Thankful For! 😊🍁
about 9 hours ago, Ms. Barrie- 6th Grade Special Education SMS
Karsten with his HR door
Leidholt’s Homeroom and their “Thankful Tree"
Our theme for our door is 67 Things we are Thankful For 🤍

November 19 was National Play Monopoly Day! Mrs. Anderson's homeroom recently played Monopoly and other board games together. What's your favorite game to play?

about 14 hours ago, Jennifer Anderson
National Play Monopoly Day
National Play Monopoly Day
National Play Monopoly Day
National Play Monopoly Day
Lepkowski's homeroom wrote thank you notes to friends and staff members at school to show gratitude and kindness this week.
about 14 hours ago, Christine Lepkowski
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All month long, our students have been learning what it means to lead with kindness and gratitude. Today, our office crew flipped the script and showed our gratitude for the incredible teachers and staff who make SMS such a special place!

We hosted a full-on PIE-STRAVAGANZA in the office conference room, complete with slices upon slices of delicious pies, warm cider, and all the autumn vibes you could imagine. It was our small way of saying thank you for the heart, hustle, and love our teachers and staff pour into our school every single day.

Thank you, SMS teachers and staff and Happy American Education Week!
about 15 hours ago, Kelsey Scarborough
Office Set Up
Office Staff
Pies
November is National Pepper Month, and we’re sharing pepper fun facts all month long! #AberdeenPublicSchools #GoEagles 💙🫑💛
2 days ago, Aberdeen School District
Did you Know? Pepper Fun Fact: Bell peppers are not grown seasonally so they can be enjoyed year-round!

Students: Enjoy a "Friendsgiving" feast for lunch today! All schools will be serving a holiday meal of roasted turkey, dinner roll, mashed potatoes and pumpkin bars! #AberdeenPublicSchools #GoEagles 💙🦃💛

2 days ago, Aberdeen School District
Students: Enjoy a Friendsgiving Feast for school lunch today! Serving roasted turkey, dinner roll, mashed potatoes and pumpkin bars
Are you ready for high school? 🎓 8th-grade students and parents — please plan to attend the CHS Registration Meeting in the CHS Theater on Monday, November 24 at 7:00 PM. Your student received the Goldbook at school today — please bring it to the meeting so we can walk through registration together.
2 days ago, Simmons Middle School
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Hiles' Homeroom spreading kindness and gratitude. Started the week with sharing something we are grateful for, picked up rocks in the parking lot, added to the Thankful Tree and made some turkeys for our Door decorating.
2 days ago, Andrea Hiles
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Golden Crew and students from the Achieve classroom partnered to celebrate Kindness Week last week at SMS. Along with daily announcements, displays throughout the school, and a variety of homeroom activities centered around kindness, we had a fantastic week! It all culminated with a Friday morning celebration and our SMS student body lighting up our school with kindness!
2 days ago, Angel Samson
Kindness Week 2025
Kindness Week 2025
Kindness Week 2025
Kindness Week 2025
Kindness Week 2025
It only took 6-7 years of Mrs. Neer's career, but today a P.E. Legend emerged! This 6th grader is the first student to successfully kick a ball through the hoop on the opposite end of the gym. Reward of choice: Blue Gatorade.
3 days ago, Cassidy Neer
Cassidy.neer@k12.sd.us
Last week our Youth Power members had a blast trying out the new games donated by one of our generous families! We're so grateful for the fun and the support!
4 days ago, SMS Youth Power
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“Our Thankfulness Tree is in full bloom! Each leaf was added by a student sharing something they’re grateful for — from family and friends to social studies and mac & cheese.
4 days ago, Mr. Carlson-SMS 6th Grade Social Studies
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Mrs. Conklin's homeroom made handprint turkeys with ways to be kind written on the feathers to help celebrate kindness this month!
4 days ago, Mrs. Conklin - PLTW Teacher
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The Design and Modeling classes at Simmons Middle School and Holgate Middle School designed snowflakes that were 3D printed and then used to decorate a tree for the Dacotah Prairie Museum's Christmas Tree Lane. It will be on display November 22nd - December 23rd.
4 days ago, Mrs. Conklin - PLTW Teacher
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Huge shoutout to Mrs. Conklin’s homeroom for taking the crown in our Pop Tabs Collection Drive! They earned a well-deserved pop party to celebrate their sweet victory.

And SMS...we absolutely crushed it!!
Our schoolwide goal was 25,000 grams of pop tabs, but our Golden Eagles soared WAY past that, collecting a jaw-dropping 36,045 grams!

To put that into perspective:
💛 36,045 grams = about 79 pounds of pop tabs
💛 That’s roughly 100,000 tabs
All of which can be recycled to help support families staying at the Ronald McDonald House.

Every tiny tab added up to something BIG. Way to go, Golden Eagles!

4 days ago, Kelsey Scarborough
Conklin's homeroom
Door decorating at Stenvig's homeroom to help celebrate World Kindness Day!
5 days ago, Annie Stenvig
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Hermansen's homeroom is thankful for kind staff, family, friends, food, and shelter. The students also did great work writing kind notes to staff.
5 days ago, Mrs. Hermansen Teacher
Things we are thankful for ..
Things we are thankful for ..
Teamwork
So proud of our homeroom and door display.
Thankful chain
Door display preparation
We got this!
Thankful for students who work together.
Writing kind notes to staff.
Congratulations to our MathCounts winners from this week’s 6th grade competition at Holgate Middle School!

Individual Testing Awards:
• Elliott Hansen, Simmons, 4th place
• Eleanor Buckhouse, Holgate, 5th place
• Priya Waldo, Holgate, 8th place
• Raelynn Nelson, Simmons, 9th place
• Ramsey Duven, Holgate, 10th place

Countdown Round Winners:
• Elliott Hansen, Simmons, 4th place
• Eleanor Buckhouse, Holgate, 7th place

Team Awards:
• Holgate Blue, 3rd Place: Ramsey Duven, Eleanor Buckhouse, Porter Bindenagel, Danika Aldrich.
• Simmons Yellow: 5th place, Bennett Tollefson, Raelynn Nelson, Elliott Hansen, Carver Erb.

#GoEagles #AberdeenPublicSchools 💙🦅💛
8 days ago, Aberdeen School District
Holgate MathCounts winners
Holgate MathCounts winners
Holgate MathCounts winners
Holgate MathCounts winners
It's National Pickle Day at #AberdeenPublicSchools! 💙💛
8 days ago, Aberdeen School District
National Pickle Day - It's a big dill!